underlying messages Quotes

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

I always find it fun to read a script and then find the messages in the script because I believe every story has them.

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.

Generally, it's all of this subconscious stuff. I didn't even know what Lizzobangers was about until it was mastered and I got to listen to it.

Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

Game creators aren't necessarily all sitting around twirling their nefarious-looking mustaches while consciously trying to figure out how to best misrepresent women as part of some grand conspiracy. Most probably just haven't given much thought to the underlying messages their games are sending.

When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.